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Suite 201, The Catalyst, Cybercity, Ebène, 72201, Mauritius

23691-001, A2 Building, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, United Arab Emirates

Bashaar Gokal

Husam Samy

Mauritius

United Arab Emirates

2023

2024

In-house liquidity provider

The evaluation fee is refundable. Under the published standard conditions, the refund unlocks alongside the fifth successful payout.

• Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX: 14 days standard, 7 days with "Weekly Payout" add-on. First reward 14 days from first trade.
• Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24: 14 days standard, 7 days with Weekly Payout add-on.
• Endurance: 14 days standard, 7 with add-on.
• Withdrawals processed within 1-2 business days. Minimum reward: $20 for Express and Enhanced; 2% of starting balance for EnhancedX; $20 for Instant Funding.

Depends on the program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout after 3 days with a 40% split. Standard payouts retain an 85% split and require the applicable trading days, profit and SFX Stability Index. Instant and 1-Step Pro allow payout requests once their requirements are met, without a fixed bi-weekly cycle.

$20 for Express and Enhanced; 2% of starting balance for EnhancedX; $20 for Instant Funding/Lite/24.

Payouts below $100 can only be processed through USDT TRC20. Bank transfer is available from $100.

Requests are processed within 48 business hours. SFX advertises $1,000 compensation if it misses that deadline.

Maximum of $10,000 per request for the first two payouts. This limit is removed afterwards.

10% discount for any retakes

Available for Ascend during evaluation and for funded Ascend, 1-Step Pro and Rapid accounts within 10 calendar days of the first trade. A funded reset subsequently applies a 50% split.

Once you've successfully completed your Challenge, you'll be able to choose between receiving an RZR Funded account with the same simulated balance as your Challenge account or upgrading your Challenge account at no additional cost.

If you pass the Challenge again with the increased balance, you'll face the same decision: move up to the next simulated balance level or switch to the RZR Funded account.

Reviewed every 3 months. Requires profitability in 2 of the 3 months, at least 10% cumulative profit and 2 payouts. Balance increases by 25% of the initial balance up to $3.2M.

• Enhanced, EnhancedX: Static
• Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Express: Trailing (balance based)

Rapid: 4% trailing. 1-Step Pro: 6% trailing. Ascend: 8% static. Instant: 6% trailing.

80% base split on all programs. Up to 90% with the optional 90/10 Profit Share add-on at purchase. Some marketing copy mentions up to 95% with additional add-ons stacking.

85% base split, with the possibility of reaching 100% through the scaling program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout with a 40% split.

• Instant Funding: Balance-based
• Instant Lite, Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX: Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark)

Rapid and Instant: 3%. 1-Step Pro: no daily limit. Ascend: 4%.

Maximum allocation $400,000 total across all challenge and RZR Funded accounts. Traders can hold multiple accounts of the same size (e.g. 2×$200K at once). Scaling plan up to $200K free of charge (NOT available on Instant Funding).

Funded accounts from the same evaluation type can be merged when both remain at their initial balance, have no open trades and their combined capital does not exceed $500,000. Instant accounts cannot be merged.

Unlimited

No time limit.

Rapid: no minimum during evaluation. 1-Step Pro: 4 evaluation days. Ascend: 5 days in each phase. Instant: no evaluation.

For payouts: Rapid and Instant require 10 trading days; 1-Step Pro requires 7 qualified days; Ascend requires 5 days and its first standard payout is available after 14 calendar days.

Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX, Endurance

• EAs allowed as long as they do not perform any restricted strategies.

Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24

• EAs PROHIBITED on Instant Funding.

Trade managers, calculators and EAs developed by the trader are allowed. Third-party EAs and EAs designed to exploit rollover or perform news scalping are prohibited.

Hedging is allowed within each individual account but PROHIBITED across separate accounts.

The majority of the traders must last longer than 3 minutes

• Proportionate monitoring of excessive or abnormal margin usage. No fixed margin cap per asset or connected accounts.

Maximum floating loss: 2% on Rapid, Ascend and Instant; $300K and $400K Instant accounts have a 1% limit. 1-Step Pro has a 1% limit, with a warning and split reduction to 40% on the first violation and closure on the second.

Copying trades, manually or through software, between the trader's own accounts or from external traders or signal providers is prohibited.

Challenge phase (Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX, Endurance)

• No restrictions on trading during news events. Caution advised due to volatility/slippage.

Funded phase (RZR Funded Accounts on Express/Enhanced/EnhancedX)

• News trading is restricted. Trades may not be opened, closed or adjusted 3 minutes before or after high-impact news events (Forex Factory red folder).

Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24

• News trading prohibited. Trades may not be opened or closed within 3 minutes before/after high impact news events.

Funded accounts restrict trading from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news. News straddling, news bracketing and manipulation of the simulated environment are also prohibited.

If no trade is placed for 30 consecutive days, this is treated as a Hard Breach and the account is closed.

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

Express Challenge (1 Step)

• No consistency rule.

Enhanced Challenge (2 Step)

• No consistency rule.

EnhancedX (2 Step)

• 35% consistency: (Best day profit / Total profit) * 100 must be ≤ 35%. Calculated on end-of-day equity (00:00 server time). Applies to Challenge AND RZR Funded account stages. Can be removed in challenge phase via "Remove Consistency" add-on (persists in Trader Account). Reward requests withdraw the full account profit, not a partial amount.

Endurance (3 Step)

• No consistency rule.

Instant Funding

• No consistency rule.

Instant Lite

• 20% consistency: (Best day profit / Total profit) * 100 must be ≤ 20%.

Instant24

• 15% trade consistency.

Maximum SFX Stability Index for payout: Rapid 15%, 1-Step Pro 20%, Ascend 25% and Instant 15%.

Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX, Endurance

• Weekend holding allowed. Caution advised due to gap risk.
• Crypto can be traded over the weekend.

Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24

• Weekend holding NOT allowed. All trades must be closed by Friday 23:45 GMT+3.

• Exploiting platform or pricing errors / latencies
• Collusion with others to manipulate prices or coordinate trading
• Scalping for quick profits from minor price changes (majority of trades open <3 minutes)
• Third-party or marketed strategies to pass the Challenge
• Automated algorithms for manipulative trading practices
• Unauthorised access or use of another customer's account
• Arbitrage between Demo Account and any other account
• Trading under multiple accounts using different registration details
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Reverse trading / group hedging
• Overleveraging, overexposure or one-sided bets (≥85% margin across one or connected assets)
• Hedging across multiple accounts
• All or nothing trading

Copy trading; third-party EAs; HFT; latency arbitrage; tick scalping; martingale and grid; news scalping; coordinated reverse trading; exploitation of errors or slow feeds; account sharing or third-party account management.